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We're pleased to offer an Internet first, having painstakingly transcribed a subtitle track for the brilliant absurdist comedy film One-Way Pendulum by N. F. Simpson. The film is not currently available on DVD, though gray market copies are available. (The YouTube upload of the film does not feature subtitles.) If you procure a gray market DVD, play it on your computer via VLC or Plex and put the .srt file in the same folder with the same name as the video file.
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We do believe this bit of Twin Peaks trivia is an internet first:
Using a secret technique of stage magic, we have determined the phone number for Black Rose O'Reilly, the madam of One-Eyed Jacks, and it doesn't follow the Hollywood cliché of beginning with 555. Blackie's number is 613-2639.
(Our illustration of Blackie is from the Twin Peaks tarot deck, which we own but which is apparently out of print.)
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The Epworth Instigator, a monthly publication in Santa Monica, edited by Saml. Carlisle, has probably the smallest sworn circulation statement of any paper in the United States. According to the sworn statement, Forrest Harris, the business manager, says that the number of copies printed and circulated for the month of August, 1907, was one.
The paper is published in the interests of the Epworth league here, and the only copy is taken to the meeting and read aloud, advertisements and all.
— Printers’ Ink, Oct. 16, 1907
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From our blog on Magic Words & Symbols Spotted in the Wild: "Where is truth to shelter, where is it to find asylum if not in a place where nobody is looking for it: . . . stamp albums?" —Bruno Schulz
Can a stamp album serve as a mystical guidebook to the entire universe? The visionary Polish writer and fine artist Bruno Schulz certainly believed it could, as he explains in Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. His ruminations on postage stamps as "handy amulets" forming "a book of truth and splendor" inspired us to piece together a Tarot deck of stamps from around the world. We reveal and explain the work in progress here: The Stamp Album Tarot
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Pollen was once considered fairy gold. "Did you ever wish with it? Just touch your finger to the pollen, and then wish. After you wish, blow hard twice to get the pollen off. If it goes, your wish will come true, but if not, you will not have your wish" (E. M. J., "A March Ramble," Primary Education 1906). Our illustration of the pollen fairy appears in Blossoms by the Way by Carrie Adelaide Cooke, 1882.
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A glass half frozen Never boils.
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